nik52wrx

When it rains my sky boxes have no signal, does this happen to anybody else?

Nik.

Timwinner

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I remember that being one of the reasons I left sky and went to NTL. Having said that is ESPN dont get the Setanta contract I will be back with Sky anyways.

scooby_me

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This happened to me earlier today, only breifly....

But yeah.. happens here also!

Daz

Foofighter

Yeah,happens to me to mate,but usually comes back on after a few minutes.

SteveScooby

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Usually only if there's a thunder storm for me

nik52wrx

Ours was off most of the night yesterday, Virgin media is looking very tempting right now.
Looking on Google it appears i'm not alone.

Snazy

Only during storms, but I can forgive it

Jamescsti

Nothing like that with virgin media

njkmrs

Heavy rain can make it go off temporarily ,but only for a few minutes normally .

nik52wrx

Turned the sky+ off at the wall, turned it back on and signal has gone from 0 to half, i now have tv!!!
Turned the normal sky box off in another room, turned back on and still no signal, bugger!!
Strange as both are fed from the same dish.....

Ant

untill the cable has been damage or cut through by the council and takes a week to sort it

TonyBurns

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Its caused by the water which interfers with the radio waves, fogs the worst culprit along with snow.
Higher the bandwidth in the radio spectrum, greater the interference

Tony

TheVoices

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Could be dish alignment as well, only needs to be slightly out.

I run a 60cm dish with a lower threshold LNB and don't loose pictures even in monsoon weather, my neighbour with the 'minidish' and std LNB gets 'blocking' and the 'no signal being received' message even in moderate rain.

c_maguire

Too true. Twice I had Sky out during the first year to re-adjust the dish (43cm version) after I got similar problems to the OP after some windy weather. Third time I went on the roof myself with a signal strength meter and reset the dish (and discovered the complete mounting by Sky was a bodge job). Since then it's not been a problem, bar temporary loss of signal in really crap weather on some channels.
I expect the OPs dish is either poorly sited, badly adjusted or both as I found the signal tailed off rapidly in both horizontal and vertical planes when moving the dish from its 'best' position.
Kevin

Luminous

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I was expecting issues with our Sky tonight, but actually it has been fine. Strange really, as during all the hot weather we have been having it has been freezing for a couple of minutes per night. Seems out dish likes the rain.

I guess thats an easy fix, if its hot and it freezes I'll just get out the hosepipe

johnemerson38

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i get the loss of signal prob but got that much stuff on the planner i have not watched i just use that till the weather picks up.did have virgin but when sky and virgin had a war and took all there channels off virgin i left lol cant live without sky1

ScoobyDriverWannabe

Have the same problem here, freeview was playing up as well.

I couldn't watch the on demand stuff on sky either, i thought that was saved onto the hardrive.

TonyBurns

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Here you go, some interesting reading

SpaceCom: Customer Tools: Rain Fade

This one is really for up and down links (well mainly up link)

Rain fade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tony

Big Pete

YES! The rain does have to be heavy tho

MikeCardiff

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We dont lose the signal, but the picture isnt as good in heavy rain, or if its really cloudy with low clouds.

Cant get cable where we live though, so dont have much choice.